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New Photos of SpaceX's Falcon 9 Assembly
RobGoldsmith writes "New images are now available of SpaceX's Falcon 9 being assembled. The images are accompanied with a small update from SpaceX. If there are no unexpected delays, it's possible Falcon 9 will be completely integrated by the end of the year. This update shows real flight hardware and really brings the rocket alive. View images of the Falcon 9 nearing completion now!"
"If at first you don't succeed because you were dumb, then second and third you still don't succeed because you are still being dumb, you probably shouldn't be handed big NASA contracts"
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
mises.org? Are you shitting me? Fringe lunatic economics don't impress me one bit. If you want a respected commentator on the situation try Robert Peston
Oh, and don't throw around the Latin like it makes you look smart. I learned that shit at school and it doesn't impress me at all.
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
You don't have to approve of what someone eats, what drugs they take, or who they sleep with to decide whether you're willing to pay they price they want for what they're selling.
But that's the thing. You do do that, and a person's values are considered as a part of the exchange. Let's say you owned a software company. Would you hire someone that showed up to work not wearing a suit to an interview? Would you hire a felon? Would you hire someone who was a staunch socialist? Or would you hire someone who was an avowed libertarian? You know the answer to that. You are going to hire based on your values and you would argue the right to do that because it is your company. That's fine.
But the counter-argument to that is that the people, expressed through their government, have the right to set values on trade as well. You can argue that your business is yours and should morally be immune from all government regulation, but it is government regulation that confers upon corporations the notion of limited liability, and hence the "right" to play with the deposits of other people in the form of loans to you.
Libertarian economics is all well and good, but you have to take limited liability off of the table, eliminate non-compete clauses and non-disclosure agreements, get rid of patents and copyrights (to a degree), get rid of exclusive promotions and deals, in short, actually have a competitive marketplace. Without those things though, there's a lot less to attract investors, and really, there's no industrial revolution at all.
To some extent, this experiment was tried in the American civil war. The north had greater government regulation in the supply of labor and the south did not. As a result, the north got the industrial revolution and the south got slavery. They had a big war, and the south lost, because, the north had more railways, more tents, more soldiers and more guns, cannons, ships and steel... whereas the south never had to have the industrial base to build this stuff with because the free market went straight to the lowest possible wage, which was buying slaves.
And what's the world like now? Those nations that artificially raise the value of their labor, through government regulation, are making all sorts of technological breakthroughs, but those that do not, just throw bodies at problems and ultimately fail. Guess where the USA is? WE got a bunch of jerks arguing free trade and that's really just wage shopping in the other direction.
You need government intervention to make an economy that advances.
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